{
  "id": "0901.2153",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-01-15T00:50:42.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-01-15T00:50:42.000Z",
  "title": "Monte-Carlo studies of the angular resolution of a future Cherenkov gamma-ray telescope",
  "authors": [
    "S. Funk",
    "J. A. Hinton"
  ],
  "comment": "Proceeding of \"Heidelberg International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy\", held in Heidelberg, 7-11 July 2008, submitted to AIP Conference Proceedings. 4 pages, 5 figures",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "The current generation of Imaging Atmospheric telescopes (IACTs) has demonstrated the power of this observational technique, providing high sensitivity and an angular resolution of $\\sim0.1^{\\circ}$ per event above an energy threshold of $\\sim$100 GeV. Planned future arrays of IACTs such as AGIS or CTA are aiming at significantly improving the angular resolution. Preliminary results have shown that values down to $\\sim 1'$ might be achievable. Here we present results of Monte-Carlo simulations that aim to exploring the limits of angular resolution for next generation IACTs and investigate how the resolution can be optimised by changes to array and telescope parameters such as the number of pixel in the camera, the field of view of the camera, the angular pixel size, the mirror size, and also the telescope separation.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-01-15T00:50:42.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "95.85.Pw",
      "95.55.Ka"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "angular resolution",
      "cherenkov gamma-ray telescope",
      "monte-carlo studies",
      "monte-carlo simulations",
      "imaging atmospheric telescopes"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper",
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1063/1.3076817"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 811053,
      "adsabs": "2009arXiv0901.2153F"
    }
  }
}